CD COVER DESIGN | Final ExamArt Challenge:Create, design and paint the cover art for a music CD. You may choose a real band and album title or you may invent one. It must be an original design and not a copy of an album coverThe artwork must contain the following:

Studio Inquiry:1. Look at the cover art for the CDs of a number of your favorite performers.2. What type of music do you listen to? List styles of music:3. Out of that list, choose a style of music for your CD, then brainstorm the name of the band and title of the album.4. What’s the first thing to pop into your mind (visually) when you think about that style of music?

(ex: Jazz – flowing lines, bright colors, etc.)5. How will you use visuals to capture and persuade your audience to buy this CD?6. How can you give a sense of the style of music through visuals (color, design, style)?7. How can the use of words and images contribute to the message of this particular band/music?8. Draw thumbnail sketches to work out the composition and your visual ideas.

9. Draw the design on 10 x 10″ Bristol board.10. Paint, draw or collage your cd cover design11. Write at least a 1/2 page (typed) explaining your visual interpretation and the decisions you made in translating the style of music into visual terms. Refer to vocabulary worksheets and utilize proper art vocabulary.Grading Criteria:

15% Ambition and Inventiveness

15% Visual impact (color harmony, good composition)

15% Structure of human head

15% 3D space (depth)

15% Expressiveness/Mood

15% Craftsmanship

10% Essay- Content – How meaningful is it?, Craft – How well written is it?, Care – Spelling and grammar

Assignment: Alter one or more of your prints with drawing and or painting materials

Process:1. Gather the extra prints that you created that may not have qualified as " good prints". Draw on top of the prints with craypas or paint with tempera paint in the negative space. Experiment with various color combinations, complimentary, analogous, etc.

2. Trim the print and mount on black paper and place in the completed work bin

Evaluation: CraftsmanshipAbility to transform a print with other materialsDemonstrate an understanding of the work of Jim DineUse of MaterialsUse of Time

Design

This is full year foundation course that will aid in your understanding and creating a wide variety of 2-D and 3-D artwork.